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 KS>> CBIP - SF: THE COBRA TRILOGY by Timothy Zahn - One of the more
 KS>> thoughtful treatments of the cyborg soldier idea, complete with a
 KS>> healthy regard for the Law of Unintended Consequences.  The first book
 KS>> takes one of the original recruits for the Cobra project and follows
 KS>> him through his career.  The soldier part is actually fairly short;
 KS>> the real meat of the book comes in the "ok, we've created all these
 KS>> supersoldiers, the war is over, and we can't reverse the process that
 KS>> created them.  Now what?" part.  The book ends with their solution.

 RB> Would this have been stimulated by Vietnam?  I heard some
 RB> of the soldiers - maybe special forces, but perhaps others
 RB> too - were taken off duty and flown home within about a day
 RB> at the end of the war, with no attempt to "deprogram" them,
 RB> and some ended up living in the wilds of Canada for a while
 RB> when they had problems adjusting to everyday life.

 I think you may find a great many of those who went for that
 were not actually special forces, or any kind of Vietnam Vet.
 There were a lot of phonies.

 Vietnam vets, and Vietnam era vets have an overall better
 success rate in our society than the average person.

 OTOH, I have known a lot of Vietnam vets who do carry a lot
 around inside them. Most do not talk about it. Some I have known
 for nearly 30 years and just know what has slipped out or others
 told me. One of them I had known was in the engineers, but just
 recently, within the last year, found out he flew as a gunner on
 a helicopter. Another came back and never left the Toledo area
 again, not even for his Grandmother's funeral in Arkansas. The
 furthest he ever went was about 50 miles to the Veteran's home
 when his father was placed there as his health deteriorated.

 Some strange things indeed. OTOH, I have found that's not
 unusual for veterans of any war.

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